CUNY DIGITAL HISTORY ARCHIVE

A participatory project to collect and preserve the histories of the City University of New York

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Oral History Interview with Sandi Cooper

In this 2018 interview Sandi Cooper, history professor emerita, reflects on her six decade-long involvement with the university, its students, and the faculty senate. Cooper, whose research specialty focuses on peace studies, spent the majority of [...]

Item Type: Oral History (Digital)
Time Periods: 1961-1969 The Creation of CUNY - Open Admissions Struggle, 1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover, 1978-1992 Retrenchment - Austerity - Tuition, 1993-1999 End of Remediation and Open Admissions in Senior Colleges, 2000-2010 Centralization of CUNY, 2010-2020 From OWS to Covid-19
Subjects: 1970s Fiscal Crisis, Academic Freedom, Activism, Board of Trustees, CUNY Administration, Faculty Governance, Gender, Labor Unions, Open Admissions, Pedagogy, State and/or City budget, Women's Studies
Tags: Benno Schmidt, Chancellor Ann Reynolds, City Hall, College of Staten Island, Congressman Herman Badillo, CUNY Graduate Center, Experimental Education, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, Mina Shaughnessy, Pathways, Peace Studies, Professional Staff Congress, Sandi Cooper, Staten Island, Union contract, Veterans, Vietnam War, Women’s Movement / Feminism
New York Closeup (1998)

Hosted by Sam Roberts, this 1998 episode of NY1's "New York Closeup" features conversation between Roberts, Randy Mastro, deputy mayor, and Joseph Lhotta, city budget director. The episode opens on a discussion of CUNY and the city's proposal to [...]

Item Type: Video/Moving Image (VHS)
Time Period: 1993-1999 End of Remediation and Open Admissions in Senior Colleges
Subjects: Admissions, City / State Relations, Labor Unions, Legal, State and/or City budget
Tags: Budget Cuts, Joseph Lhotta, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, Randy Mastro
25 Years of Progress: Professional Staff Congress/CUNY

In celebration of their 25th anniversary, the Professional Staff Congress/CUNY (PSC) published this collection of articles written by Irwin Yellowitz, "professor emeritus of history at City College and a former PSC treasurer." The articles and [...]

Item Type: Text (Report / Paper / Proposal)
Time Period: 1978-1992 Retrenchment - Austerity - Tuition
Subjects: 1970s Fiscal Crisis, Adjunct or Contingent Labor, Austerity, Community Colleges, CUNY Administration, Faculty Governance, Labor Unions, Pedagogy, State and/or City budget
Tags: Budget Cuts, Chancellor Joseph S. Murphy, Chancellor Robert Kibbee, Governor George Pataki, Governor Mario Cuomo, Legislative Conference, Mayor Abraham Beame, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, Professional Staff Congress, United Federation of College Teachers

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